Just Talking

I started watching a certain celebrity talk show in a popular Tamil channel during my school days in Chennai. I was completely disconnected from the television for a long time, but, recently I found that youtube is not a bad substitute at times.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been watching as many episodes (of this show) as I could find and something about it has provoked a chain of thoughts resulting in this post.

I have been wondering how the segments in the show actually turn out to be meaningful even for some of us(non-celebrities).

Segment 1 - Rewinding the past and summarizing things about oneself quickly

Segment 2 - Invite someone significant to the show and have them say a few words,

Segment 3 - Have some music / some other form of entertainment

Segment 4 - Have a few laughs by making a prank call

Segment 5 - On TV segment; other people talk about the celebrity

Segment 6 - Flower segment; the celebrity picks questions and answers them (this could alternately be a rapid fire round)

Segment 7 - Give the guests a chance to say sorry or thank you to whoever deserves it

Segment 8 - The guests talk about their secrets of success

At the end of the show, the stars pick up their gifts and leave. An hour well spent, that's the other (probably better) takeaway.

Without any of these segments, conversations are difficult to maintain. :) That can't be considered a bad thing. Quality doesn't always depend on the number of words exchanged (but it can depend on their frequency). :) On the other hand, once all these segments are finished ... a lot of things become redundant. Everyone has to move on. Thirdly, and most importantly, the "emotional connect" happens only with a certain level of comfort and that, is highly individualistic and non-deterministic, like most emotions are.

At the end of the day, there are few celebrities in each of our lives. They walk with us all the time (metaphorically) and we take them for granted at times, like many other things that we forget to feel thankful for. Whatever I say, I end up coming back to that square which has contentment written on it. It's a very big word in my dictionary. Perhaps this post too was meant to be like a cup of coffee. It has brewed, relish it if you can. (This is such a literary extravaganza from someone who doesn't drink coffee at all.)

P.S. I tried to do something very carefully while writing this post. If I say what it is, I'd be ruining everything. If you understood what that is and you care to get back to me about that, your response would be much appreciated. Thanks, adios!